Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 14

"Now, my little folks," said the king, "I want to ask you some ques-tions, and the child who gives the best answer shall have a prize."

Who acts: little folks, child · What happens: say, want, ask, give, have · To what, where: king, ques, you, best answer, prize · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little folks, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 folks	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 folks	amod
6	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 folks	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 folks	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 ask	mark
17	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 want	xcomp
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 ask	iobj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 ques	det
20	ques	que	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ask	obj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 tions	punct
22	tions	tion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ques	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 have	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 have	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 child	det
26	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	nsubj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 gives	nsubj
28	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 child	acl:relcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 answer	det
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 answer	amod
31	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gives	obj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 have	aux
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 want	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 prize	det
35	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	my little folks	the king		now	tree rules
2	want in a quote	present	my little folks = folk				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	ask speech: ask not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	my little folks = folk not said here	some ques and tions	you		tree rules
4	give in a quote	present	the child	the best answer			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
5	have in a quote	shall	the child	a prize			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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